A Couple of Cute Boys

Griffin at 2 months old

Griffin and Brock

Brock at 3-years-old

I watched the movie, Living Proof, last night and was amazed at how long it took to get Herceptin approved. It seemed like there were so many things against Dr. Slamon (the oncologist who did the research and developed the drug). There were times where the drug company funding the research tried to stop supporting Dr. Slamon. He was very persistent and close to 10 years after discovered, Herceptin became FDA approved in 1998. The end of the movie was the best part. Dr. Slamon was jogging around a track and as he ran by, the empty bleachers began filling with women clapping and cheering him on. I believe it was symbolic for the thousands of women he's saved over the past ten years.

Here's an excerpt from an interview with him on mylifetime.com which I found very hopeful:

How has this drug changed women’s lives since its introduction?
Since the introduction of the drug, it’s had a dramatic response for the women who respond to it. Not all women respond, but the ones who do seem to do very well, and we now have long-term survivors in this subtype, which we never had before. In Bob’s book and in the movie, they talk about a couple of patients who really did very well, who are out now 11 or 12 years with no evidence of the disease. So we think it’s been very effective. That’s gratifying.

Here is a link for more information about the movie:

http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/living-proof

I did want to share a Brock story from ER last week. We were hanging out in Nicole's hospital room around 3am and the lab tech comes in to draw blood.

She looks at Nicole and says, "How are your veins?"

Brock, sitting directly across from the technician, quickly pipes in saying, "Our beans are dead because they didn't get enough water and it got too cold outside".

The lab tech stared at him completely confused until I explained that he thought she was asking how his beans, not veins, were.

She still didn't think it was as funny as we did!

Before we left he walked over to Nicole's IV and asked her why they had to give her milk through an IV.

He was quite the little party animal for that time of night, and he kept us entertained with storytelling and "exercising". That was his excuse for running around the hallways. We'd tell him to stop and he'd say "I'm just exercising!"

Nicole's plan was to return to work today which I'm assuming happened since I haven't heard otherwise. She was feeling quite a bit better yesterday.

Continue praying for no more infections and no more cancer!!